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#35 [en] 

It's self-limiting: the more an alliance grows, the longer you have to wait for your share. Consider a simulation with 8 available rubbarns per month and 72 masters spread 32-24-16 over 3 factions. You can replace master with guild if you wish.

If Ginti is held by the largest faction, that's a waiting list of 4 months (32/8) to get a new piece assuming owners give to everyone without holding anything. Instead, should the players redistribute 24-24-24, the wait time goes down to 3 months. Should everyone decide to join one faction, you're looking at a waiting list of 9 months, at which point the materials are not worth the waiting time.

Moreover, if a faction is able to win despite a numeric disadvantage (certain players brag they can), then they might actually satisfy their members in a very reasonable time. Any player looking for a faction has to think very hard before joining a group that's already large: (s)he'll get very little in return for the effort.

Of course your bet that people are rather risk-averse is a valid one, but I think given the right reward, they will actually do something to get it sooner than later. My bet is human nature .. greedy and wanting to have shiny stuff ASAP.

Oh and I'm obviously not counting neutrals who don't PvP. If bosses are locked in PvP regions (LoU), OP mats can be locked too. A neutral who wants to help a side is always welcome to negotiate compensation in return.

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#36 [en] 

Mjollren, let us consider your simulation.

You omit one small(?) factor. If your plan works to encourage OP battles and hence switchovers, then no one will hold an OP for four months, three months or perhaps even two months! As a result, in your evenly matched scenario (assuming totally scheduled distribution by the holding guilds as you do) the distribution time is not going to be reduced, but increased since those masters will not get any mats while their faction/alliance/etc. does not hold the OP.

If they stick to the large alliance as they are currently set (by your example) the alliance will almost certainly continue to hold the OP, so they will get their rubbarn in 4 months (a time period which already feels "too long; don't bother").

If they split up and the evened out groups share the OP on a inter-battle time of 2 weeks and a switchover every other battle (i.e. every month) (and assuming that each of the three groups holds it an average of 1/3 of the time), they will get their rubbarn in 9 months (plus or minus a bunch due to random factors). (I could do a full-fledged simulation with a random number generator, but that value should be the right order of magnitude; it is certainly going to be longer than if they stayed put.) Further, the more OP battles there are, the worse the situation becomes due to the startup delay in drill generation of mats.

If the idea is to have OP mats as a reward for holding the OP, cutting down on the supply doesn't work.

And I think that you still have not shown that there is a surplus of OP mats.

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#37 [en] 

Burn the Ops, burn em all!

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#38 [en] 

Suboxide (atys)
Burn the Ops, burn em all!

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#39 [en] 

Sorry to hijack the thread:

I just have a weird idea on how to increase op wars. What I observed from the current setup is that a reward is lacking.

Supposed we change the mechanics and add something like:
1st phase
- every round an attacker wins, will get 1 mat the OP produce
- the max mats the attacker can get is the current threshold of the OP

2nd phase
- attacker can not get anymore mats as max mats was obtained on the 1st phase

Again, I'm sorry if I hijack the thread, but I think this will make more sense, it is more realistic since the attacker won a round then there is a possibility that the attacker looted something. Hehehehe. I think this will increase OP wars.

Last edited by Afriel (1 decade ago)

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#40 [en] 

While I think that 1 mat per round is too much (far above the production potential, and inviting abuse by handovers), the idea might be not so bad.

But I leave that to the experts to comment.

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Daomei die Streunerin - religionsneutral, zivilisationsneutral, gildenneutral

#41 [en] 

With admiration for Adriel, I have taken his idea, and developed it further, posted to a separate thread to allow this thread to continue un-hijacked.
--B

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(*) This statement is contested, but we are certainly the longest lasting.
<clowns | me & you | jokers>

#42 [en] 

Daomei
Not long ago I posted a WTB to trade forum
As Gkr said before but I will back up; people don't trade things on the forum usually.
gkr
This wont happen... Devs made 3 factions, but they didnt balance the OP wars.. we wont find solutions as in "let marauders join with karavan" - why the need of 3 factions?
One could argue the devs made 3 factions in order to balance OP wars. Its a shame people get hung-up on RP and refuse to make alliances. As Gorran said "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".

I'm getting pretty tired of people whining and whinging about numbers when they refuse to use all the resources open to them (by resources I mean the other factions).
gkr
THE RP STANDS AS PRIORITY. WE WILL NOT ACCEPT TO ALLIANCE WITH OTHER FACTIONS - WHAT IS THE POINT OF FACTION IN FIRST PLACE
The point in a faction.. This can be many things to many different people. However different factions making temporary alliences with each other is only natural as we have seen throughout the course of history with many countries. Hide behind your RP all you want, but please stop complaining about numbers if you refuse to use all the options open to you.
gkr
Interesting perspective.... I think we might have something here as Kamis are very greedy (personal statement) so it might divide them... lets see other with REAL experience of economic and OP wars what they have to say....
I think you must not remember the times when kami weren't on top. During my time on atys (ari) there has always been one thing that is constant: The fluctuation of OPs between kami and kara. Kami dominate for a while then kara strike back and take over. I personally believe kami are just on top for the moment. I can assure you that I have had my fair share of downtimes. I remember loosing zo-kian to karavan and I was not happy about that.
Keep insulting us, call us greedy or whatever. The fact is we worked hard to own the OPs we have. We trained hard and we prepared hard. I have seen no such dedication from the other factions to replicate this, apart from a few individuals leveling hard. What I have seen as a response from the other factions is a constant stream of complaints about numbers and how unfair life is. Stop wasting your time whining, get out there, train hard, sort your game out and come take our OPs.
gkr
Kamis are greedy... I believe their alliance will collapse...
Yep keep insulting away. All you do is sound completely pathetic. The kami alliance was built long before we owned good OPs, and it will continue long after that. We have had our ups and downs, especially getting to grips with french, german and english styles of RP but we persevere. If you think our alliance is built and maintained because we want OP mats you are sadly wrong.
gkr
Well.. what Mjollern is trying to do here.. is find a way.. to make kamis stop creating this huge alliance between each other.. making the OP wars... dull...
Asylum first attacked for 2 reasons. We wanted the OP mats, and we wanted to hold the best OPs so we could defend against counter-attacks. We took a simple game mechanic and used it to our advantage, which people have been doing since OP wars were first introduced just in case you didn't know.

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#43 [en] 

In reply to Virg:

Edited 2 times | Last edited by Exodus (1 decade ago)

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#44 [en] 

Bitttymacod (atys)

--Bittty
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P.S. Thank you, Gkr, for generally maintaining a respectful tone. I hope that you understand my tone to be the same; strong disagreement, but no personal malice.

I appologize for jumping off the ship without knowing you better.. thanks for the feedback and hopefully we can find a way to make it better for everybody..

Cheers

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